spermatophoren.
1. Biology. In certain of the lower forms of animal life, a structure containing a compact mass of spermatozoa.
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spermatophore1849
sperm-aster1904
1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 485/1 These fibres in the Cephalopods are..surrounded..by peculiar sack-like enclosures or Spermatophores.
1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 108 A packet of spermatozoa, aggregated in their passage along the convolutions of the vasa deferentia into the so-called ‘spermatophore’.
1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish 351 The filaments are in fact tubular spermatophores.
2. Botany. A part of the spermogonium of lichens or fungi, on which the spermatia are borne.
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spermatium1856
spermogone1856
spermogonium1857
spermagonium1861
spermatogonium1861
spermatophore1861
spermagone1876
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. v. 384 The spermagonium, when mature, has its interior filled with a number of bodies called spermatia..raised on stalks, termed spermatophores.
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spermatoˈphoric adj.
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spermatophoric1959
1959 W. Andrew Textbk. Compar. Histol. xii. 475 [In the common squid] peculiarly complicated organs, the spermatophoric organs and sacs, receive the sperm from the vas deferens, pack them into bundles, and cover them with a tunic..before their ejection as spermatophores by the penis.
1977 M. J. & J. Wells in Giese & Pearse Reproduction Marine Invertebrates IV. vi. 297 In..the wider initial section of the first spermatophoric gland, the sperm are embedded in a mucin secretion.
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